..To assess the influence of abdominal obesity and work stress (operationalised as low control over work) on ambulatory blood pressure on a working day and evening...

Psychosocial predictors of changes in physical activity in overweight sedentary adults following counseling in primary care

A SteptoeDepartment of Psychology, St George s Hospital Medical School, University of London, United KingdomPrev Med 31:183-94. 2000

..This study evaluated demographic, social and cognitive predictors of self-reported changes in physical activity after 4 and 12 months in a randomized trial of behavioral counseling in primary care...

Central adiposity and cortisol responses to waking in middle-aged men and women

A SteptoeDepartment of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UKInt J Obes Relat Metab Disord 28:1168-73. 2004

..We investigated whether central adiposity indexed by waist/hip ratio is related to cortisol responses to waking and other measures of salivary cortisol over the working day...

Depression, stress, and coronary heart disease: the need for more complex models

A SteptoeHeart 91:419-20. 2005

..Depression has been related both to the development of coronary heart disease and to prognosis in patients following acute myocardial infarction, but the clinical significance of these associations remains uncertain...

A SteptoeDepartment of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, 1 19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 6BT, UKHeart 93:1567-70. 2007

..Cumulative pathogen burden may also predict future CHD. The hypothesis was tested that lower SES is associated with a greater pathogen burden, and that pathogen burden accounts in part for SES differences in cardiovascular risk factors...

Lack of association between depressive symptoms and markers of immune and vascular inflammation in middle-aged men and women

A SteptoeDepartment of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College LondonPsychol Med 33:667-74. 2003

..If this is the case, then non-clinical depressive symptoms and psychological distress should be associated with immune activation and vascular inflammation. We tested this hypothesis in a healthy middle-aged sample...

Socioeconomic differences in attitudes and beliefs about healthy lifestyles

J WardleCancer Research UK, Health Behaviour Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, UKJ Epidemiol Community Health 57:440-3. 2003

A V RanchorNorthern Centre for Healthcare Research, University of Groningen, The NetherlandsQual Life Res 11:101-13. 2002

..The direction of this association was opposite to what might be expected on the basis of the literature. Implications of the findings for health care as well as explanations for the social support findings are discussed...

Depression, stress, and the heart

P C StrikeHeart 88:441-3. 2002

Estimation of fruit and vegetable intake using a two-item dietary questionnaire: a potential tool for primary health care workers

..Within the context of a study evaluating a dietary counselling programme to increase fruit and vegetable intake our aim was to assess the use of a simple tool to estimate fruit and vegetable intake...

Personality and heart disease

A SteptoeHeart 93:783-4. 2007

Higher levels of state depression in masculine than in feminine nations